单词 | intercept |
释义 | intercept (once / 583 pages) 1v 2n When you intercept a pass in football, you grab the ball that your opponent had thrown to a member of his own team. To intercept is to stop something from reaching its intended destination. If a national intelligence agency intercepts a telephone call being sent from one terrorist cell to another, they stop the message and also learn a bit about what's going on in the terrorist world. If you're planning a surprise party for your friend and she arrives a half hour early, you might run to intercept her while everyone rushes to hide. WORD FAMILYintercept: intercepted, intercepting, interception, interceptor, intercepts+/interception: interceptions/interceptor: interceptors USAGE EXAMPLESA fourth-year veteran, Hyde intercepted a pass at the goal line intended for Golden Tate with 1:35 left in the game. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) On the next play, Allen lobbed a weak pass toward Grimes, which was intercepted. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Kirk Cousins’ stepped up in the pocket, threw over the middle and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie stepped in front to intercept. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v seize on its way The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace Syn|Hypo|Hyper stop cut off, cut out cut off and stop catch, grab, take hold of take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of 2v tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information 2Syn|Hyper bug, tap, wiretap eavesdrop, listen in listen without the speaker's knowledge n the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis Hyper point a geometric element that has position but no extension |
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